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a growing criticism of sanctions being iranian citizens from artist. up next artie's technology update invites you on a tour around the world's most cutting edge devices. oh and welcome to technology update even though moscow is located some seven hundred kilometers away from the nearest sea it's still a major port city in fact those in the know sometimes refer to it as a five seaport as a result the moscow river and the inventions it's inspired have played a central role in the everyday life of the capital when the rivers free of ice there's a new the in this parade of ships chugging up and down moscow's watery boulevard their purposes very much of the activity in this city was enabled by the moscow

canal which link the capital's river with the mighty fold with the help of the longest river in europe captains and barking from moscow can take their vessels to any of five possible outlets the white and baltic seas to the north as well as to the as a black and caspian seas to the south. but if one staying within the capital itself there's no more enjoyable way to take in the sights than from aboard one of the many ships cruising the river way and the pilgrim boat with a retractable glass roof is the latest addition to capitals pleasure fleet. but the shore stalking boats are far from a new idea well they were initially envisioned as just another form of public transport in the early one nine hundred seventy s. the must evolve was launched as a true pleasure boat for both residents and visitors alike. but as the times have changed so too have moscow ships these new pilgrim models were developed on the basis of the old must. with room on board for up to one hundred twenty passengers

the ship can easily function as a ferry or even a floating restaurant as you'd expect they're equipped with the very latest in navigation and radio communication tools out there these are fitted with a twin shaft proposal. system as well as a both thruster which allows the captain to maneuver tight passageways over if you have the need for speed and you might want to look elsewhere it's got to fuel efficient one hundred twenty four power engines which can only push up to about eight knots or roughly fifteen kilometers per hour. and to find the maker of these new pleasure boats one look too far just like the pilgrim is built amidst the hustle and bustle of russia's capital out of the seventy six year old moscow shipyard. as number of. passengers ships used to be in the late one nine hundred ninety s. and early two thousand and sort that the main thing we produce to. the by around the year two thousand the demand for passenger ships dropped off significantly.

this happened. different reasons which we need not now. of the same time a brand new market segment for the new russia. mall this was the demand for premium class vessels sold up. since the start of the so-called boom in russia thirteen oshie cruisers have been launched from the docks in moscow with several more on the way forward based models but the pride and joy of the company is their forty six and a half meter model whose boundaries are only limited by the owner since of adventure according to the team in moscow one of the main advantages of their ocean crossing vessels is that the engineers are willing to be more flexible with the future owner in terms of final configuration now the yachts built out of moscow shipyard.

here in front of you you have service boat. at the earliest stage of production it's special in that it's made out of pressed panels so the number of

welded seasons is kept to a minimum this meaning that means it will be safe and will have to slice up during the design process engineers are toiling over every ground engineer there is a scale and they weighed every single piece before it was added to the construction hoarded so that it was done to ensure that there's not a single unnecessary ground on this boat. so in the end it ought to look something like this just over nine meters long in three and a third meters wide thanks to his twin shaft propulsion unit and lightweight construction it can officially cruise it thirty two knots or nearly sixty kilometers per hour. the cabin can accommodate up to ten passengers it can support up to nine hundred kilograms of supplies aboard. the cuts run exemplifies what must be a shipyard views as its main task as a boat builder. such as the ship building plans main objective is to

gather together the very best things produced by of the factories such as the best radio station the best winch the best materials the best engine the best propeller and then to put them all together to produce the world's best boat. so that's exactly what the pros at moscow shipyard will keep on doing with that supposedly yachting boom being along with the austere mood of the global economy to focusing their energy on multi-purpose ships like this which could be used by city regional and port authorities alike since last year the docks here have been busy churning out in p.b. fourteen and other similar craft made for russia's internal waterways. and you can take my word for the pair of three hundred twenty five horsepower engine for one of the best ways to get the wind blowing through your hair on a sunny summer day. moscow

can boast of its status as a five c. port russia's second largest city st petersburg is actually where most of the action happens in fact the founder of the northern capital is also considered to be the father of the country's modern naval fleet after studying the craft in holland peter the great brought the necessary technology and know how back to russia where he set about transforming an uninhabited swamp into the heart of his empire and the russian ruler brought back a little more of the dutch as well with the likes of new holland island forming an integral part of st petersburg shipbuilding base. industry has been important from the very start just about everywhere you turn there are reminders of its historic link to the sea for example the admiralty with that shining spire was supposedly the third building constructed and that's a tradition that's continued to this very day one out of every four vessels of

russia's fleet can point to st petersburg as its birthplace and huge number of the country's biggest vessels like ice breakers and floating power stations. here more than fifty thousand workers are employed in the port city ship industry and any given moment there's a major project preparing to hit the water or has just got underway. at the moment the eyes of the boat building world are all fixed here at the admiralty shipyards at their sprawling docks the final touches are being applied to what will become one of the globe's most advanced all purpose research vehicles. when all is said and done that. will be the latest addition to russia's pulled it going fleet that has the ability to transport eighty scientists to the most. research sites on the globe. can start doing that it has to pass all requisite checks and tests but only recently returned from its first trial there were

a few kinks here and there to work out but that's what these tests are for anyways but getting this far has been a long time in the making the very first work on this antarctic work course takes us back nearly a decade where it all began with a series of tenders. to design bureau affiliated with st petersburg shipbuilding research institute was responsible for the entirety of the planning process from beginning to end the naval architects here at. the bureau was called were tanned in hand with the scientists will be utilizing the vessel to come up with the very. bureau dates back to nine hundred twenty five and has come up with around one hundred seventy designs that have given birth to more than two thousand six hundred ships and they likely needed all of that experience to tackle a beast like the research ship at hand. to rear the academic is one hundred thirty three meters in length along which there are twelve watertight compartments doesn't

go the way of the titanic. labs on board and the nose is shaped like an ice breaker . in front of the bridge is a tandem crane with a combined capacity of seventy tons its whole measures twenty three meters wide and there are two helicopter landing pads for when there's just no dock in sight. one of the key issues on which we work closely with the client when creating the draft design. how many shifts should there be how many propellers for this boat. which is currently used. expedition is only one shaft and one propeller basically has proved to be. another advantage of a single propeller. power when sailing in the open water and consequently it consumes you during that time. has its own advantages for

instance when a boat has to break through it requires less power than a single one which is kind of surprising but the main advantage. of sure have some sort of backup in be highly reliable were together with the client decided to build. any good plans on paper one thing making those a reality is a totally different affair and even before thinking about the first academic a series of scaled down tests had to be run here at the cradle of shipbuilding research institutes testing pools pool complex is an important part of what higher ups say is one of the largest experimental stations in the world running along the length of the institute a one hundred sixty one pool was used to test the overall seaworthiness. design while the complex is impressive enough as it is more is on the way at present a brand new ice pools under construction. already in place and work on

a thirty meter deep offshore pool is slated to get started next year the main goal of course is to make sure ship designs will hold up and perform just as prescribed . but. we had to develop a special place you want to ensure that the boat at a certain speed. and the jeff design stage we developed the. model and tested it realized that require some adjustments and improvement correspondingly when we were working on the technical design improve the model which demonstrated excellent results in seaworthiness in handling additionally we need another two models. one for testing in ice pool and one for a wind tunnel to build three models for the technical design and one for the draft . so after getting the go ahead on the plans the construction of academic began in

earnest back in july of two thousand and nine is the first scientific research ship constructed at shipyards in thirty years considering the conditions it will be operating in every weld matters the ship has been designed to be able to travel fifteen thousand miles in between port calls and will be able to handle freezing water down to forty degrees below zero building a vessel of this complexity is no small feat and that's something admiralty shipyards it feels that it has the right to brag about. but. there are very few vessels and this. one is in the u.k. and there's another one in canada. china has just started building these ships but no other country has such powerful vessels which is difficult to compare with. that in the environmental safety and energy efficiency. in modern ship building.

is a cutting edge vessel it has clean ballast tanks which prevent do you water for mixing with clean water as well as more efficient diesel engines. reviews engine heat for heating water into other day to day functions. of course the ship is high tech in its own right that's really only half of the story here is important not to forget that it will be equipped with state of the art labs and instruments academic was ordered by russia's federal service for hydro meteorology and environmental monitoring which will allow important research into some of the least explored regions of our planet. on the way to the big icy continent down under scientists from st petersburg's arctic and antarctic research institute guinea here. we'll be able to carry out a whole host of experiments to be able to analyze the continental shelf with the help of specialized hydro acoustic instruments being implemented for only the third

time and invest meteorological tools will monitor the atmosphere above coming in can be measured analyzed right away in the vessels numerous laps. judging by the data on the equipment on board for and research that i have studied recently condemning is right there with them all over the world are trump card is for mobile . basically these are containers where you can please just about any equipment to be used for any research purposes so in terms of on board scientific equipment we are absolutely competitive. but for those labs to be of any use at all the academic has to get to the antarctic safe and sound so for that reason the builders turned to a stalwart of russian marine technology to install the very latest navigation and communication equipment. the world over you can find

hundreds of ships decked out with trans us his signature radar and mapping systems thanks to things like their admiralty data service captains and navigators are no longer surrounded by never ending piles of maps is that the whole process is streamlined integrated data reaches crew in real time or waterways stay as safe as possible but for the. trans as came up with something quite unique. exceptional is that for the first time we equipped a russian vessel with an ice load monitoring system. provides the ship's captain with additional navigational. as such it measures how much pressure on the vessels in the most vulnerable areas. no plans us is certainly no up and comer in the world of maritime technology at their main office in st petersburg some one thousand eight hundred employees are hard at work every day to keep

pushing the company's product line into the future one of the most advanced isn't a rate of realistic training systems but their expertise here isn't just limited to the sea their helicopter simulators give young pilots a glimpse of what to expect before they even takes the air these full flight simulators can prep even experience flyboys for adverse conditions and emergency situations as well considering that there are real lives at stake any time someone relies on their navigation equipment and maps they're tested over and over again making sure there are no bugs in the program or data their catalog of electronic maps tops fifteen thousand and they sold more than three million over the years. but accounts for around forty percent of the world market for navigation equipment . and has supplied about forty five percent of the marine simulators installed around the globe. as well as twenty five percent of coastal systems.

transacts specialists have supplied over ninety systems to ports in fifty countries around the world and. here in the ship's bridge all the technology onboard will be combined turns us as navigation tools will be linked up with information coming in from the scientific equipment that will enable the captain to maneuver the ship in such a way that maximize the collection of experimental data from the collaboration onboard and pity the cooperative aims of the overall antarctic expedition. so just right now this is an international territory with everyone doing their own research as a part of the international program who knows maybe in the future when the antarctic treaty expires. it may be for antarctica in any case this continent will continue to attract great interest because it's enormous. and rich

in natural resources including biological resources and mineral deposits which have yet to be explored. the coming launch of the vessel sure that russian scientists are left out in the cold forefront of the most advanced research better understanding changes to the continent can give us a clearer picture of the processes at work the world over and that's an endeavor that all the companies working on the academics have helped bring to life but water borne craft don't always have to be about getting from point a to point b. sometimes they can be a destination in and of themselves and right now on the banks of the volga river there's one project that sets out to make life a little more and maybe if i. live near russia's main waterways current is as much of a part of life as laying down to sleep at night so should come as no surprise that people are. to. the north of moscow a group of coworkers and friends about trying to get the most out of their

proximity to european russia's made riverway started out as just a fun idea two years ago is now sprouting into an actual business with orders reportedly already on the books with that in mind i hit the road to check out their first model. so dimitri what is this and this is a houseboat. which means a rainbow trout. there were quite a few different design ideas which if you today is the one we consider to be the best. however it is entirely possible that the future. of course. out there. to improve on the tried and. true idea it took about a year. before they decided. according to the designers.

but they can't take all the credit themselves. on the. naval architecture but in the end the connectors they came up with. to be. very much. need two hundred kilogram there are six. to fifteen tons of float the whole thing is built on top of. the bow and devises and everything else ten different. base. configurations are possible measures about half meters by seven and a half by six point two with a total weight around seventy five hundred. twenty square metres.

the result is. the comforts of home even if you're miles downstream from where you normally live. not just here we have the kitchen. here. then there's a gas cooker. fridge and things basically it is everything you need in keeping. looking in comfortable little bathroom complete with a shower. quite simple. this is. do we have the diesel generator batteries. how much electricity does it produce. is that enough. for this

house and this is the correct you're absolutely right and bedroom with you can put it here instead. let's go out and this looks like a summer verandah doesn't it right with so much sunshine and it might be the best place in this boat. time out here. think about it is that we used it for the whole thing. but at the same time. even construction. and one of its most important features is simplicity essentially built this boat if it were. a couple of inches. in other words. come during the production phase standard laser cutting equipment is used to edge out the individual pieces

considering that there are only a handful of distinct parts the whole process could benefit from serious economies of scale if they ramp up to something approaching mass production after the. all that's required is a little bit here and there and you know all the basic parts. put together using small simple means that the label like it can be assembled anywhere without the use of giant trailers. outfitted with a motor its light frame can be tugged wherever your heart desires in the future the team here in. yes and hopes to build a whole floating community to allow vacationers to camp out on the relaxing waves of russia's mini waterways. so with the help of modern technology a new white is russia ship makers are getting into tradition and connection to see video ways that's this just a technology update to see you next time a little bit enjoy the right. to.

my name is richard davis i'm an architectural photographer from london and i've been traveling in russia for the last ten years on a project photographs wooden chair choose obviously i fell in love with attractions they are extraordinary ok it's a beautiful of the sea and the church is is a religious monumental obviously but it's also an object of wonder you know it's something that people can look around and it opens their eyes that they choose what can be achieved by using your imagination.

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